philos posts are well put , and that post about Bondi? come come what sad rubbish!
About 6 months before the last federal election it became clear to me the left had already killed any chance the ALP ever had.
If the thinking behind Bondi flag sham is taken into the next election a further landslide victory to Howard would wipe out non conservative partys, Waverly council is a shambles.
And has lost touch with Australian voters.

Hamlet,

Your claim I have been taken in by the propaganda of the right is nonsence. I listened to the reasoning of the Mayor of Waverley herself and I became convinced the 6 to 5 vote in favour of not flying the flag on Bondi Pavillion was nothing more than cowardise and surrender.

Most heritage buildings can well fly the symbol of Australian heritage - the Australian Flag. You see the Greens hate the links with our English St George Cross, St Patricks Cross and St Andrews Cross in the corner of the Southern Cross. However it represents a former coming together of three countries in one union with high ideals to build a better and unified society under the Southern Cross. The flag represents our cultural heritage that preceeds the recent add'ons to the Bondi Pavillion.

In fact Malcom Turnbull the local Member has offered to pay for the flagpole to be erected and flags to fly. There is no cost to the local taxpayer - cost being the reason is a furfey. An expensive inquiry - how much money does it take to make a decidion? Typical of indecisive councillors they must be removed from office and replaced with decision makers that represent the views of the community.

I had nothing to say about other flags flying in Waverley Council. But one of the reasons being put to not fly the Australian flag was; to fly the flag on a Council icon on the beach front could arouse racial tensions.

Quote, "You have been taken in by the The Bondi Pavillion is a heritage building, any changes, including the erection of any flagpoles, requires an extensive enquiry and reports that will cost the ratepayers of Waverley thousands of dollars."

David

With regard to election material it is very unlikely you will be sued for anything you say as most political material published at election time is usually regarded as 'fair comment' and isn't regarded as likely to be found defamatory or libelous. Anyway that has been my experience in Queensland...but check.

Mr David, BOAZ: The definition of a split second is the interval between posting or emailing an error, and one's realisation of it. I did indeed mention you in the post, I'm sorry, and the silly OLO software didn't allow post-publication editing. Your criticism of my post was not only correct but, under the circumstances, restrained. "Nice", in fact. I can only assume you're taking the tablets again. Remember, two yellow, one pink, and never the other way around.

I find it ironic that the SMH on line, in its article about the Australian flag at Bondi, uses a photo of a flagpole, without flag, on the top of a Bondi pub, yes, hotel, watering hole etc, to illustrate its point. Not the Pavillion, of course.

There is no flagpole on the Bondi Pavillion for a flag to be flown from, so how can Waverley Council be accused of banning the flying of a flag from a non-existing pole?

And now the premier has come out and said that he, will in effect, override planning and heritage regulations to get a flagpole up.

Talk about the flag being hi-jacked!

And Philo, the ratepayers of Bondi are getting heartily sick and tired of paying for other's appreciation of Bondi, from the City to Surf to the Festival of the Winds and Sculptures by the Sea, and all the other weekend invasions.

Why the hell should we pay for a flagpole so that you can gaze at in in appreciation?

I was conceived and raised in Bondi, my father was BORN in Bondi. I have lived 95% of my life in the Waverley Council area. People like you, telling the long term residents and ratepayers of Waverley about whether we should fly a flag or not are just like the Islamics that you despise telling the rest of Australia to accept them and their behaviour.

You don't like multiculturalism telling you what to think or do? Well the residents of Bondi will welcome visitors and the like, just don't go telling us how to run our lives, and how to spend our council's finances.